Books

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  A Planet to Win

  by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, et al.

  In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics

  8 posts

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  The Case for the Green New Deal

  by Ann Pettifor

  What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it?

  10 posts

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  After Geoengineering

  by Holly Jean Buck

  What if the people seized the means of climate production?

  7 posts

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  Our History Is the Future

  by Nick Estes

  How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”

  14 posts

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  Extreme Cities

  A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis

  22 posts

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  Climate Leviathan

  by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

  How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse

  8 posts

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  The Progress of This Storm

  by Andreas Malm

  An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

  10 posts

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  Verso 2017 Mixtape

  by Verso Books

  FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017

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  How Did We Get into This Mess?

  by George Monbiot

  Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it

  22 posts

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  The Shock of the Anthropocene

  by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

  Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

  23 posts

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  Molecular Red

  by McKenzie Wark

  Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century

  64 posts

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  The Lamentations of Zeno

  by Ilija Trojanow

  A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic

  15 posts

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  Fossil Capital

  by Andreas Malm

  How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power

  39 posts

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  Capitalism in the Web of Life

  by Jason W. Moore

  “Moore’s radical and rigorous work is, and richly deserves to be, agenda-setting.” – China Miéville

  28 posts

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  The Secret World of Oil

  by Ken Silverstein

  “An engaging journey through the sector’s murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart.” —Financial Times

  20 posts

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  The Earth

  by Hubert Krivine

  How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth

  5 posts

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  The New Prophets of Capital

  by Nicole Aschoff

  A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah

  12 posts

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  The Oil Road

  by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

  A journey along a controversial European pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy.

  13 posts

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  Carbon Democracy

  by Timothy Mitchell

  How oil undermines democracy, and our ability to address the environmental crisis

  30 posts

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  Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

  by André Gorz
  Against the background of recent technological developments, Gorz's major new book explores the political agendas facing both right and left in the midst of the transformations of the nature of work and the structure of the workforce.

  8 posts